Your POLL's got a little machine: ILM Artist Poll #71 • Pixies (Voting Thread)

lol I'm not trying to say it was a bad guess. Surfer Rosa is the Pixies album in the 21st century both in terms of respect and influence. It just wasn't seen as that at the time. (And I happen to still prefer Doolittle regardless.)

Surfer Rosa is the Pixies album in the 21st century in terms of boobs.

..I'm not merging things together

I hope the Vamos votes aren't split too much, that song deserves a top 10 place.

Oh damn, I may have to merge things on a case-by-case basis. I didn't think of there being two album versions of Vamos when I rattled off that declaration.

Was is she weird a single from Bossanova? I can't remember.It seems like the closest in terms of style to what came before.

never realized just how awesome that track is until i was listening to tracks for the poll! that and Levitate Me have been in my head for a week now.

Front to back (even though, and probably because, there's only 8 tracks), Come On Pilgrim is the most solid Pixies release. All killer, zero filler.

Ride the Tiger down the River Euphrates.

Brick Is Red is missing from that Wikipedia list upthread, in case anyone's using it to compile their ballot.

An overlooked Frank Black track, "Bullet". My favorite solo track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgV9q6fl1I

I really like Lovely Day, but I can't help feeling the fact he's singing to an alien detracts from it a bit

hahaha. i only really started to enjoy TLM when i learned to let that shit go. lovely day was my last cut.

Hmmmm. I've just finished ranking them and I have both I Bleed and Dead just outside my top 22 when I assumed they were nailed-on to be in there. Need to think some more...

At least we can all agree Doolitle is the tits, right?

― Moka, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I danced around it for a long time, but I finally made peace with the fact their most popular album (Doolittle) is also their best (Doolittle).

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:28 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's the one I listen to the least. In fact, I'm fairly confident none of its tracks are going to make my ballot!

Weirdo.

I mean, I do think Doolittle is a stronger album than Bossanova, but there's individual tracks on Bossanova that mean more to me than any track from Doolittle.

and Trompe Le Monde is my favourite Pixies record, so...

I wish it were an inclusive poll. I'd love to see how many of us Breeders >>> Pixies these days.

19 ballots in, who wants to be lucky #20?

me!

I have tried to research Pixies songs but got sidetracked by The Breeders and now i can't go back.

voted

Going to vote. Persuaded by Turtleneck Work Solutions to return to ILX for just this purpose.

I like the b-sides. Dancing the Manta Ray! Into the White! The Debbie Gibson one ...

Is there anything good anywhere online on Pixies lyrics? I'd like someone cleverer than me to think about them for me. (Quarter-remembered Melody Maker articles from 1989 aren't going to help.)

well there's song meanings dot com, or some such. doesn't always get it right as it's mostly speculation, but worth a try maybe.

"doesn't always get it right" is an understatement, tbh - often the lyrics themselves are wrong, never mind the interpretations

My ballot split looks like this:
COP: 0
SR: 0
D: 2
B: 11
TLM: 6:
B-sides: 3
I might avoid reading the results of this poll, cause reading other people's rong opinions about the pixies makes me irrationally angry.

Lol at ^this

mine went thusly (sorry if it's enraging):

COP: 2
SR: 4
Dl: 7
Bn: 4
TlM: 5

i will also mention that i had three song off of Teenager of the Year on my not-Pixies list. i seriously fucking love that album.

I haven't started tabulating ballots yet, so I don't know which albums have an edge on others, but just from people's breakdowns in this thread it looks like Indie Cindy might as well have never happened (as it should, naturally).

Heh, my breakdown is the same as Thermo's except I had three each from Pilgrim and Surfer.

i have one of those gadgets from men in black and whenever i see a reference to 21st c. pixies material i zap myself.

the film, not the frank black song

No indicindy ne.
The song I've loved most during the reformation years gigs is Velouria. It always sounds so magnificent.

Also late voters should check Subbacultcha again. mf awesome. There's something about that song. It's on the Purple tapes as a lesser version i seem to remember?

COP: 2
SR: 5
D:10
B: 4
TLM: 0 (controversial!)
IC: 0
B-sides: 1

I could have easily put 5 songs from Teenager of the Year on my non Pixies list.

Is there anything good anywhere online on Pixies lyrics? I'd like someone cleverer than me to think about them for me. (Quarter-remembered Melody Maker articles from 1989 aren't going to help.)

― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith)

http://songmeanings.com/artist/view/songs/891/

User interpretations. Mind you the Pixies were dadaists or something, so half of the time their lyrics don't mean a damn thing.

it's not rocket science dudes, every song is about sex and death and then all of a sudden every song is about aliens

Yes, that seems about right.

CoP = 3, SR = 8, D = 5, B = 4, TLM = 2

sent - hope you got it

lots of TLM

tried as much as i could to include a b-side but it fell too forced, so none for me.

I think I only had one CoP song in mine (two if you count Vamos but I was thinking about Surfer Rosa's version).

yeah, same as that, Into The White is kinda great but it's never gonna fit into the top 22 imm.

xp

Something about Lovely Day I can't quite put my finger on it, but to me it's one of their better lesser celebrated songs.

Also, I always imagined Bossanova (side 1) and TLM (side 2) has a space conspiracy double album, with two very distinct and competing style, and it multiplied my love for both records over time.

I once heard their B-Sides album compilation and I didn't like it. As far as B-sides go it's a great compilation but compared to the other Pixies work it doesn't measure up to the actual songs on the albums.

The highlights for me in there where the alternate versions of the album records. The fuzzier version of River Euphrates, the opiate, surf version of Wave of Mutilation and The Thing (which is a revamp of the second half of The Happening).

The 'original' b-sides which are worth anything, imho, are Manta Ray and Into the White.

Currently soliciting ideas for punny titles for the results thread.

He bought me a soda and he tried to POLLest me in the parking lot